There is a reason why baseball, basketball, and football are American past times. They are easy to pick up and can be played anywhere. They don’t require many tools. They don’t require much equipment. A ball. A bat. A hoop. A field. A court.
Golf isn’t static. You’re playing against the environment and that environment changes with every course. Baseball is essentially static outside of the distance to the back wall and the height of the wall.
In terms of just variables to take into count, golf has way more because the playing field is always changing.
Anyways, that wasn’t the point. If anything, I’m making a case FOR baseball. That even though it doesn’t have all the complexity, that it still has incredible depth. Complexity doesn’t equate to strategy. You can take a relatively simple game and it can still have the same breadth of talent as a game with far more variables.
I don’t know why you’re getting caught up in the details. It was a side point to the discussion. If you want to make the discussion about which is more complex… we can, though I’d say it’s pretty pointless.
Oh. Baseball fields are as diverse as golf courses? Got it.
I mean AWC players are just a combination of 3 things, 2 of which any other player could be.
Dedicated enough time to play different classes to learn to play them well(by just playing and reading information beforehand)
Dedicated enough time to learn how to counter opponent classes (by literally just playing and reading)
Fits well with the playstyle / has talent / adaptive to the meta / multiclass.
Basically all high rated players have the first 2. You play long enough and often enough, you climb, as long as you ask yourself why you lost so you don’t lose the next time (by having basic information and human analytical skills).
That does mean you need addons, death logs, and paying attention to everything during the game itself.
The best test for this is how you play into a setup comp, like rogue mage or feral hunter. Are you going to react fast enough to avoid dying? Use something before the CC? Or just drop dead on the floor? All these comps play the same way and do the same things over and over, it is all scripted.
Just like doing a job for a longer period of time. Eventually being good at it becomes the norm and a habit.
You want to learn to be better at your class? Commit time, watch the top players play it, and try things.
Or you can sit in the same MMR / CR bracket for years and bang your head on the wall due to ignorance.